PayPal in Nigeria

PayPal in Nigeria

    Finally as the ecommerce frenzy in the emerging markets like Nigeria is booming ,PayPal, a leading global payments provider, announced plans to introduce services into 10 new markets including Nigeria. As services go live, the people of Belarus, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Macedonia, Moldova,Monaco, Montenegro, Nigeria, Paraguay, and Zimbabwe will be able to register…

West and Central African Research and Education Network(WACREN) CEO wins 2014 Network Information & Infrastructure (NI&I) Service Award.

  News from WACREN website says that Boubakar Barry has won the 2014 Network Information & Infrastructure (NII) Service Award.   Dr Barry who comes from Senegal won the award for his commitment to capacity building and Internet development in Africa including his work in supporting the emergence and the strengthening of several research and education networks in…

Evernote Partners with African Technology Foundation to Support African Start-ups

  Evernote, the company that is helping the world remember everything, is joining forces with the African Technology Foundation (ATF) to find Africa’s hottest homegrown talent in app design and development.   Starting today, the ATF and Evernote will kick off their search to find and showcase the top African applications that integrate with the…

From Africa to Silicon Valley – The internationalization journey for African Startups

From Africa to Silicon Valley – The internationalization journey for African Startups

    I was in a café in Barcelona when I heard the news: Facebook acquires Whatsapp for $19b! The fact that the acquisition story circulated within the same news cycle as the civil unrest in Ukraine was weirdly ironic. Jan Koum, the Ukrainian founder of Whatsapp, had successfully negotiated an acquisition deal with net…

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Start-Up Nigeria: Opportunities, Challenges and the Future

  This article was first published on the Seed Stars World Blog       The story of Nigeria’s economic revolution is gradually unfolding as Nigeria recently becomes the largest economy in Africa and the 24th biggest economy in the world. It is very surprising and in fact unique to see a lot of foreign…

IDC Research Shows positive Growth in Personal Computers Shipments in Middle East and Africa for 2014

    The Middle East and Africa PC market (including Turkey) is tipped to end a dismal run of seven consecutive quarters of year-on-year declines in Q2 2014 by posting long-awaited growth of 3.2%, according to the latest forecasts from research and advisory services firm International Data Corporation (IDC). The recently compiled results for Q1…

Join the 2014 IBM Global Entrepreneur Programme and SmartCamp

Join the 2014 IBM Global Entrepreneur Programme and SmartCamp

    After 3 years IBM is delighted to report that their IBM Global Entrepreneurial Initiative has been gaining significant momentum in the region.The goal of the initiative has been to build relationships with quality Startups to help accelerate these partners to market quickly and cost effectively with a sustainable and profitable model. All this success…

Enter for the 2014/2015 Agip Post Graduate Scholarship Award

Enter for the 2014/2015 Agip Post Graduate Scholarship Award

  Nigerian Agip Exploration Limited (NAE), on behalf of the NNPC/NAE/OANDO PSC, is committed to the training and development of manpower as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme.In pursuance of this, NAE invites applications from suitably qualified and interested Nigerian graduates for the 2014/2015 Post Graduate Scholarship Award Scheme. The award is in…

Ericsson Mobility Report for Sub-Saharan Africa Shows great Increase in Mobile Internet Usage in the Region

Ericsson Mobility Report for Sub-Saharan Africa Shows great Increase in Mobile Internet Usage in the Region

    Ericsson, a world leader in communications technology and services, has today revealed the scale of the region’s ongoing data revolution with traffic growth doubling the past year. The June 2014 Sub-Saharan Africa Ericsson Mobility Report shows that in 2014 phone users accessed 76,000 TB (terabyte) of data per month, double the 2013  figure…

Intel Reaffirms Commitment to Education in Africa during EduNet 2014 Conference

Intel Reaffirms Commitment to Education in Africa during EduNet 2014 Conference

  Intel Corporation has restated commitment to modern teaching and learning techniques with investment in electronic educational resources to encourage the youths get access to quality education in a pleasant manner. The company announced this at the 4th Edition of the  Education Network Conference 2014 (EduNet) tagged “Fostering Technology Entrepreneurship in Nigerian Universities, “held at the…

Driving the Online Market frenzy in Nigeria, KAYMU Improves Delivery with the NO WAHALA SELLER DROP-OFF Initiative

Driving the Online Market frenzy in Nigeria, KAYMU Improves Delivery with the NO WAHALA SELLER DROP-OFF Initiative

  Watching the rate of growth, adoption and competition of Internet business and ecommerce in Nigeria and in Africa, it really leaves one with keen interest embedded with huge opportunities that can transform the economic development in the region.   The success stories of Internet companies under the Africa Internet Holding is one worthy of…

Minister,DG NITDA,Ernest Ndukwe for 2014 Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum

Minister,DG NITDA,Ernest Ndukwe for 2014 Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum

  The list of notable speakers for the 2014 Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) and Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable have continued to increase with the latest being the co-chairman, Nigeria National Broadband Council, Dr. Ernest Ndukwe. Just as the Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson has accepted to declare the event…

Diamond Bank Upgrades Mobile App… Gives N1000 Cashback on First Use

Diamond Bank Upgrades Mobile App… Gives N1000 Cashback on First Use

      Intent on providing cutting edge banking services to its customers round the clock, leading retail bank, Diamond Bank PLC has announced the upgrade of its mobile-based banking application –the Diamond Mobile app. With this upgrade, subscribers of the mobile app can carry out more banking transactions beyond funds transfers and bills payment…

Austin Okere to Chair Nigeria Internet Governance Forum (NIGF) 2014

Austin Okere to Chair Nigeria Internet Governance Forum (NIGF) 2014

  The Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Computer Warehouse Group (CWG) plc, Mr. Austin Okere has been named as the chairman of the Nigeria Internet Governance Forum (NIGF) 2014. Confirming this development, the chairperson of the Local Multi-stakeholders Advisory Group (LMAG) of the Nigeria Internet Governance Forum, Mrs. Mary Uduma, said that Mr….

Mobile West Africa 2014 brings world’s most influential mobile expert to Nigeria next week (May 13-16)

  There are a lot of reasons to attend this year’s Mobile Web West Africa holding next week from 13-16 May.One of such reasons is that Tomi Ahonen, the man measured by Forbes as the world’s most influential expert in mobile, will be taking to the stage and sharing his esteemed vision of the future of mobile at the…

Commonwealth Broadband Africa Forum 2014 to Focus on Broadband for Accelerated Growth In Africa

  We are happy to partner with the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation on the Commonwealth Broadband Africa Forum 2014 which will focus on Broadband for Accelerated Growth In Africa. The Commonwealth Broadband Africa Forum 2014 is the evolution of the Connecting Rural Communities series of events that the CTO ran successfully for seven years. The theme…

Enter for The Royal Academy of Engineering Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.

    The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation being instituted by the Royal Academy of Engineering,London, is now open for applications.The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation which is in its inaugural edition aims to stimulate, celebrate and reward innovation and entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa. The Africa Prize encourages ambitious and talented sub-Saharan African engineers from…

The Contribution of Mobile Web West Africa Conference towards the Development of Mobile Ecosystem in Nigeria

The Contribution of Mobile Web West Africa Conference towards the Development of Mobile Ecosystem in Nigeria

    With the introduction of GSM in Nigeria few years ago, the use of Mobile phones quickly became very big in the country. Its socio-economic impact on the lives of Nigerians has been very significant. As this growth continues exponentially, trends around mobiles began to emerge. Mobile Web is getting so big in the…

Online Portal-NacossConnection.com set to Connect Nigerian Computer Scientists all over the world

    Recently I met some young guys-Steve and Kennedy who are a part of a team doing everything possible to connect Nigerian Computer Scientists online. Their passion in doing this is commendable. Another key ingredient I noticed about them is a great team they’ve got. About six of them working on this project, I…

What the Media are saying about EduNet 2014 Conference to be hosted by Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

    As preparations for the 2014 EduNet Conference is going great.With the theme of the conference: FOSTERING TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES. Here are what the media are saying about the conference which will be hosted by Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife in partnership with Tel Aviv University Entrepreneurship Centre Israel. See the links below,…

Ex-Jumia Nigeria Staffs Launch Supermartng.com-an online Grocery Delivery Service in Nigeria

    Supermart, an online grocery delivery service that allows customers shop for groceries from leading supermarkets, recently launched in Lagos. Customers can buy grocery items from various supermarkets all from the Supermart website. The fact that customers are shopping from recognized supermarkets gives them an assurance about the source of what they are buying….

African Innovators set to be Honoured in Abuja,Nigeria on May 5

The African Innovation Foundation (AIF)announced the finalists of the prestigious Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2014.Ten African innovators have created practical solutions to some of the continent’s most intractable problems, from a domestic waste biogas system to a wafer matrix for paediatric antiretroviral (ARV) drug treatment. Chosen from almost 700 applications from 42 countries, the finalists…

Austin Okere,Founder/CEO Computer Warehouse Group Speaks on Building a Global Business in an Emerging Economy at the Columbia Business School.

Austin Okere,Founder/CEO Computer Warehouse Group Speaks on Building a Global Business in an Emerging Economy at the Columbia Business School.

  The Founder/CEO Computer Warehouse Group Plc, and Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR), Columbia Business School (CBS), New York, Austin Okere, will be presenting a workshop titled:From Cradle to listing in an Emerging Economy, the CWG Experience on April 15th at Columbia Business School,New York. Learn about the opportunities and challenges of crafting a coherent long-term…

Internet Hall of Fame celebrates 24 new members whose vision, Innovation, and Determination helped shape today’s Internet and Expand Global Connectivity.

Twenty-four people who designed and advanced the Internet as the global, world-changing platform that it is today will be inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. The Internet Hall of Fame was launched in 2012 by the Internet Society and this year’s ceremony will be held in Hong Kong today 8 April. Representing 13 countries,…

Nigerian and South African Teams named as semi-finalists in Ericsson Application Awards 2014

    Ericsson recently announced the semi-finalists for the annual Ericsson Application Awards with Team SOP from Nigeria and Team WorkMode from South Africa named as semi-finalists in the company category and the student category respectively. Team SOP developed an application that allows users to receive push notifications on availability and analytics on electricity in their area….

GSF Global Accelerator Extends Program to Africa Startups

    GSF Global Accelerator a leading tech Accelerator based in India is extending her program from April to include African Start-ups. This is a 13 week program to foster innovation in the fast growing global digital economy. It aims to provide select start-ups with unparalleled access to venture and business networks, personalized & intensive…

Innovation Forum 2014: Cross River State Government partners with Microsoft, Nokia and Dalberg to Drive Innovation in Nigeria

  Innovation forum 2014 is set to provide answers as to how ICT-Led Innovation can drive competitiveness and growth in Agriculture, Education, Employment and Job creation in Nigeria.   In line with the overall vision to foster innovation in Nigeria, the Cross River State Government in partnership with leading tech organizations-Microsoft and Nokia in collaboration…

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Slot Celebrates 15 Years with Fun and Great Reward for her Customers in Nigeria

  In an unstructured Technology market like Nigeria,we are seeing several businesses coming out very successful in distribution and sales of tech products.One of such success stories is from Slot Systems limited popularly called Slot, a leading company in the distribution and sale of original mobile Phones and devices in Nigeria who celebrated her 15…

Technology Entrepreneurship as panacea to Youth Unemployment in Nigeria

    I am of the opinion that perhaps the ugly, unfortunate and regrettable incident where many young Nigerians lost their lives in a stampede during the Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment exercise could have been avoided if the government had taken youth unemployment a bit more seriously and as a top priority over the years….